Kaizer Chiefs have just beaten SuperSport in the Carling Knockout and they’ve got a chance to compound Matsatsantsa’s misery after their defeat to Orlando Pirates.
Is Gavin Hunt facing the sack?
SuperSport now have a dismal four points after five league outings in the 2024-2025 Betway Premiership season. Of course, a man of his calibre and experience is fully capable of turning things around, but the signs aren’t great so far. Matsatsantsa has endured a torrid start, losing their last three matches across all competitions, most recently Orlando Pirates who beat them 2-0 at Orlando Stadium. They’ve failed to score in five of their last six matches too. Perhaps it’s too early to speculate, but Gavin Hunt’s job could be on the line if he doesn’t steady the ship soon.
Hunt faces Kaizer Chiefs next
With a 4-0 Carling Knockout thumping fresh in the memory, SuperSport must now get themselves mentally ready for another battle with Gavin Hunt’s former employers. With the league season in its embryonic stages, a win would change the mood at SuperSport but a defeat would make those clouds hanging over the club a little greyer. Supersport vs Chiefs kicks off at 18:30 on Saturday, 26 October.
Kaze wants a Tanzanian midfield star at Naturena
According to Soccer-Laduma, Cedric Kaze has suggested Chiefs battle Sundowns for Tanzanian midfielder Feisal Salum. He’s a player Kaze and Nasdreddine Nabi know well with their vast experience of league football in that country. However, rumoured interest from Masandawana would drive the 26-year-old’s price up. Salum has 37 caps and three goals for his country.
“There could be more changes in the playing staff at Chiefs in January. You know the Tanzanian midfielder that Mamelodi Sundowns have been following, Feisal Salum? Kaizer is now after him. Actually, the assistant coach Cedric Kaze is believed to have proposed him to the club as both he and Nabi know him from Yanga. He played under them before joining Azam and he feels there is a role he can play at the club hence his suggestion to the team. It’s just that at Chiefs for now, when they are ready they will approach Azam. But there is that talk at the club now about Feisal Salum,” said the source.
Will Gavin Hunt get sacked this season if things continue as they are?
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